Executive producer Steven Spielberg demanded Megan Fox be sacked from the third Transformers movie after she compared director Michael Bay to Hitler.
Fox exited the project last year, prompting speculation as to whether she jumped or was pushed. Despite denials by the actress, the word on the street was that she was given her …

yuk!

RE: Dumb as a rock

I always like 'dumb as a bag of hair'. Used to describe AVRIL LAVIGNE (I'm not shouting but I did have to google her name. A copy and past later and hey presto, all shouty and I can't be arsed to change it...)

This is all I have to say about that

Desperate Paramount managers, Transformers3 is a worse product.

Desperate marketing bull from Paramount. Steven Spielberg is a professional and very kind man, he wouldn't have fired Megan Fox. Michael Bay hired, wanted and made her famous.

Paramount wants to achieve exactly what by spreading this fake scoop? Is this their best strategy trying to make people accept Rosie by telling the lie that Spielberg fired Megan Fox? What a bunch of fools, indeed.

So Paramount managers are really desperate promoting this Transformers3 now. That clearly happens because they know Transformers3 doesn't look good, it's way worse quality wise than the first two movies, the whole production is a real mess.

They better be worried because everything on this movie looks worse than the first two.

1) They fired the worldwide loved lead actress Megan Fox that they created as sex-symbol for Transformers franchise

2) So they broke characters and plot continuity and consistency, this is not a trilogy anymore, it's just like if George Lucas fired Natalie Portman when filming for Star Wars III started.

3) Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as lead actress replacement is a big fail. She is not hot, she has an hot body yes but many pornstars do as well AND her face is pretty ugly AND she can't act a little bit. Every scene with her on screen makes you gringe, her screaming in front of the camera looks like some retarded reality show instead of a Michael Bay movie. She is the worst female cast that Michael Bay ever did to date.

4) Alan Dean Foster that wrote the first two movies official novels and prequel novels was fired as well and replaced with Peter David, a cheaper worse writer. Paramount went cheap.

5) Linkin Park just remixed Iridescent for the movie instead of providing an all new exclusive single. Paramount didn't want to pay them. And Iridescent is probably their worst song to date.

6) Industrial Light & Magic CGI on Transformers3 looks bad in too many shots. Full of mistakes, wrong proportions, wrong filtering, sometimes it seems that the movie is using ancient stop-motion.. an awful thing already seen on Avatar.. and that happens because quality control went downhill

7) The useless 3D gimmick is just going to cause some major eye-strain and add nothing to the movie. It only caused ILM to deliver a worse CGI.

8) Paramount this time is paying critics and journalists to write positive reviews for the movie, something they didn't need to on the first two movies. That happens because they know they got a worse product that needs brainwashing people and a good smoke screen to not let people see all the mistakes and issues that this 3rd Transformers movie unfortunately really has.

Transformers3 doesn't deserve the good and strong word of mouth that turned the first two movies into a huge worldwide financial success despite all competitors bashing the movies on forums and paying critics to write bad reviews.

Umm..

Really?

"Transformers3 doesn't deserve the good and strong word of mouth that turned the first two movies into a huge worldwide financial success despite all competitors bashing the movies on forums and paying critics to write bad reviews."

Are we talking about the same movies? The first one was OK, but the second was a completely unwatchable, burn my eyes out and ask for a ticket refund car-crash!

"...worldwide loved lead actress Megan Fox..." Nope. She's alright, if you like that fat-lip look. She certainly can't act worth a damn and was only ever included so teens had someone to jerk off over.

Transformers (the original tv show) had a good storyline. OK, it wasn't great, but it was a kids' cartoon. I enjoyed it when I was a kid. Then some numpty let Bay make a movie, which was tolerable, and then another, which was frankly an embarrassment. Now we hear that the 3rd one is shit as well; colour me unsurprised. There's a reason that the last one got panned.

When will Hollywood learn that bigger 'splosions don't necessarily make a better film? Story and characters are what make a film great. Bayformers have had neither thus far.

Re: Points 1-8

1. And RHW will do quite nicely out of this one, no doubt - what 'they' did before, they can do again.

2. No-one cares about the continuity apart from a few saddos like me, and the comics do a fair enough ret-conn there thank you.

3. IMHO, she 'acts' better than Fox. Time will tell - but I doubt this is the last movie RHW does (and not just Paris style ones, children!)

4. ADF wrote decent enough movie novelisations, that's about all he does though. Peter David has been writing books and comics across most of the big Sci-Fi/Fantasy franchises for years - Start Trek, Marvel Comics, etc and is well regarded by those fanbases. If he's good enough for them...

5. You either like them or you don't. I do. What I've Done was an album track / single before being tacked to TF1.

6. Avatar was pure CGI for the most - pretty if you like that sort of thing. The combination of CGI and real world footage in the TF movies is nothing short of astounding, whether you like the movies or not you've got to admit they are technically capable. There looks to be SO much more in the way of FX shots this time round, so you talk nonsense sir, based on not having see the finished article.

7. 3D does nothing to impair the CGI. I'm not huge on it, but the 2D is there if you want. And I do.

8. Pics or it didn't happen. My review may well appear on a well known movie related website before too long - I'm not getting paid, I'm just hoping to see a good blockbuster.

You are a sad Harry Potter watching troll and I have fed you and claim my fiver.

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tits

So the story is something about an actress or other who starred in a shit movie and may or may not have starred in a second shit movie and now may or may of not been fired from the third shit movie. Somewhere along the line Linkin Park may or may not have written a song about it.

Or not

To be completely fair

He did start -- or at least catalyzed -- a major world conflict which killed roughly 60 million people on all sides. Sure, Japan's eastern escapades and tensions between the Soviet Union and the West may have eventually flashed something similar in his absence, but ultimately we'll never know. Also, don't forget the Slavs, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally disabled...and of course those abysmal watercolors.

Deflationary revisionism

5.5 million is in the ballpark for the number of *Jews* killed in the Final Solution, but the previous poster said "Hitler may have killed 13 million *people* in concentration camps" and that's pretty near the standard estimates for the TOTAL number of victims, including Slavs, Gipsies, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.

@stuartnz

Speaking as an official Gyppo (no, really), best estimate is that 90,000 gypsies died in concentration camps. That would mean you're suggesting that Hitler managed to find 7.4 million other bastards to gas, vastly outnumbering Jews.

Either pre-Nazi Germany was gayer than Brighton on a sunny Sunday or Christmas must have been a pretty dismal affair.

I can't believe

@AC

No, it's not better. However, as is argued far more clearly than I can manage in _The Holocaust Industry_ by Norman G. Finkelstein (c.2000) this kind of numerical inflation cheapens the memories of those who died and is used a lever by others who cynically wish to profit from the whole thing.

My granny (who was pure Romany, had a sister and both parents die in the camps and was not one for political correctness) used to spit furious invective about the Jews for continually whining about the whole thing and proclaiming themselves to be the only victims. Whether fairly or unfairly is not for me to say. All I know is, the facts are there. Making it look bigger than it was is either lazy or cynically manipulative and I won't sit back and watch it go uncorrected.

So...

"Transformers3 doesn't deserve the good and strong word of mouth that turned the first two movies into a huge worldwide financial success despite all competitors bashing the movies on forums and paying critics to write bad reviews."

So who paid you then?

Bit long-winded for an opinion I'd say.

Also, I'm disappointed about Megan, marvellous actress that she is. Still, I'll watch it when it comes out on DVD. Almost everything about them is crap really, but I'm just a sucker for giant robots.

You've seen it...

Sooo...

Transformers

I started at the beginning pondering how were they going to turn this cartoon into some viable movie.

The truth is, they did a belting job. I loved both movies, although as with much sci fi, you have to be in the mood to suspect your disbelief and just take the joy ride. Assuming you do this, both movies are a blast and I hope 3 is the same.

Anyone quibbling and making oddball statements about how a transformer movie doesn't come up to snuff in historical and philosophiocal movie terms seems to miss the point, and their basis for existing.